Subject: bug#9982: M-x load-theme does not change background color

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:46:34 -0500

Brendan Miller wrote:

> When loading emacs color themes with M-x load-theme, the background
> color is never set to anything other than white. Tested with manoj-dark,
> which is explicitly documented as having a black background.

Works for me with both Lucid and GTK builds of the current trunk.

emacs -Q                            ;  background is white
M-x load-theme RET manoj-dark RET   ;  background is black

Does it work in emacs -Q for you?
Do you have a system theme that imposes a colour?

The information that M-x report-emacs-bug provides might be useful.